Project Manager / Management Consultant

Group Level Information & IT Risk Management for a major bank

• Develop and implement a top-down risk management methodology for the group
• Analyze cyber security risks/trends (ENISA Report, SANS20 etc.)
• Analyze audit findings/issues
• Identify project and operational risks
• Conduct senior management and BISO workshops for risk assessment
• Analyze SANS20 controls and map projects and risks to manage relevant initiatives/programs and projects
• Assess and map initiatives and programs for risk reduction
• Establish processes for analysis and maintenance of the information risk portfolio
• Set up Information & IT Risk reporting for the bank-wide committees

Project lead “Implementation of a group-wide payment transaction platform” based on SAP/Serrala at an insurance/building society

• Plan and control program
• Crisis management to take over program including transition according to replanning
• Overall responsibility for business case and its updates
• Stakeholder management, especially audit support and external auditors
• Release planning and requirements management
• Prepare and facilitate steering committees at board level
• Go-live preparations and cutover management
• Coordinate subproject leads
• Manage architecture team (enterprise architecture, solution architecture)
• Manage test managers, manage PMO team
• Conflict management in project
• Plan and manage resources (business case and clarity)
• Coordinate project changes with stakeholders and portfolio management
• Involve line organization for knowledge transfer, prepare production deployments and support provider management (Serrala and SAP)

Multi-project management “IT Security” at a development bank

• Set up projects (scoping, staffing, dependencies, milestones, etc.)
• Project lead for Data Leakage Prevention (DLP)
• Project lead for Advanced Malware Protection (AMP)
• Project lead for Intrusion Detection/Protection (IDS/IPS)
• Align frameworks and ambition levels (e.g. for DLP and AMP) considering regulatory requirements from banking supervision, BSI, etc.
• Facilitate management workshops
• Milestone planning and management of dependencies and resource conflicts
• Track and advise projects to achieve results
• Set up and conduct portfolio KPI reporting
• Align evidence for project documentation
• Advise portfolio projects, especially network segregation
• Interface management for data protection
• Advice and track handover of project results to line/operations
• Prepare results and align with audit

Multi-project management “Integrated Risk Management” at an insurance company (2nd LoD)

• Set up projects in 2nd LoD portfolio (scoping, dependencies, milestones, etc.)
• Project lead for Business Continuity and IT Service Continuity Management (BCM and ITSCM)
• Project lead to implement a new information security incident management process
• Project lead for individual data processing (IDP) - inventory, compliance model, scanning
• Project lead for Data Leakage Prevention (DLP) solution (MS Purview) – processes and technology
• Prepare and conduct senior management project review workshops
• Milestone planning and management of dependencies and resource conflicts
• Align evidence with audit and external auditors
• Advise and track handover of project results to line/operations
• Ongoing integration of DORA requirements into projects and plan roadmap for 2024